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A baby pictured in a slum on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, which received £279 million in aid from Britain in 2010-11Farooq Khan/EPA

Francis ElliottDelhi

Published at 12:01AM, May 14 2012

Britain should withdraw its aid to India and spend the cash where it is more welcome, a leader of the country’s main opposition party has told The Times.

Yashwant Sinha, a former Indian foreign minister, said: “You can tell the British public from our side that they can keep their money, use it for their own welfare, or divert it to some other country which is in greater need.”

His remarks will reignite controversy about government proposals to spend a set amount of British gross domestic product on overseas aid each year.